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Table 2 Neuromuscular dual cognitive task training program

From: Effect of combining eight weeks of neuromuscular training with dual cognitive tasks on landing mechanics in futsal players with knee ligament dominance defect: a randomized controlled trial

Neuromuscular training

Cognitive tasks simultaneous to neuromuscular training

Double-leg squats

Walking lunges

Single-leg squats

Forward and backward counting, naming months of the year forward and backward, Naming fish, dog or tree types, Participants were asked to remember pre-selected words and sing songs with the vocabulary included

Single-leg squats

Double-leg drop jumps

Single-leg stance, unstable surface

Single-leg countermovement jumps

Reaction to the colors displayed verbally, simple mathematical problems, subtracting by twos from a number ≥ 30, visual and auditory stroop test, if the instructor says YES they respond NO and viceversa

Single-leg stance, unstable surface

Single-leg countermovement jumps

Horizontal bounds

Single-leg standing long jumps

Participants will be asked to shift focus from a cognitive task to another on some of the dual tasks, if a green card is presented they have to say RED and when a red card is presented they have to say GREEN, Naming members of the family/clothes/professions